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Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs [4] (Shelta: Mincéirí), [5] are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous [6] ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland. [7] [8] [9] They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English and ...
Mary Teresa Collins (born 1960s), Traveller human rights activist, a public survivor of the Irish state and church institutions and mother to the author Laura Angela Collins [2] Eileen Flynn (born 1990), Senator and first female Irish Traveller to serve in the Oireachtas [3] Nan Joyce (1940–2018), pioneering Irish Travellers' rights activist [4]
Irish Traveller Americans consist of people originating from immigrants who came to the U.S. before the 20th century, and some who came later during the 1900s and 2000s. Georgia, New York, and Tennessee also have communities of sizable proportions. Irish Travellers are often involved in painting, construction, and pavement/asphalt-related work.
The church's Irish priest, Rev. Fr. Joseph John Murphy, encouraged the Travellers to settle to the north of North Augusta, and so the community of Murphy Village was formed during the 1960s and 1970s. [10] [11] St. Edward Catholic Church was constructed in Murphy Village in 1964 to serve the Travellers. [12]
The Tinker Menace; the diary of an Irish Traveller by Laura Angela Collins is a true story about an Irish Traveller family forced into Irish institutions such as the Magdalene Laundries, Industrial Schools in Ireland and the fight the Collins family are made go on to try gain justice from the State and Catholic Church. [9]
The Irish national and another man were arrested this past November in Maynard for taking part in what is described as the "Irish traveler" scam, in which another Irish native arrested in Quincy ...
The Irish Traveller Movement (ITM) was founded in 1990 and incorporated in 1998, [1] with Catherine Joyce as the founding chairperson. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The organisation represents 40 local and national Traveller groups from the island of Ireland.
Nan Joyce (1940 – 7 August 2018) [1] was an Irish Travellers' rights activist. She worked to improve the lives of Travellers in Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1981 until her death in 2018. She was the first Traveller candidate in an Irish general election, in 1982. [2]